TY  - BOOK
AU  - Westlake,Martin
TI  - Slipping loose: the United Kingdom's long drift away from the European Union 
SN  - 9781788212021
AV  - JF497.G7 W47 2020eb
U1  - 341.24220941 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Agenda Publishing
KW  - European Union
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Membership
KW  - Union européenne
KW  - Adhésion
KW  - fast
KW  - Referendum
KW  - Référendum
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - World
KW  - European
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - International relations
KW  - Membership requirements
KW  - Relations
KW  - European Union countries
KW  - Pays de l'Union européenne
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The 2016 Brexit referendum result has been portrayed as the consequence of various short-term phenomena: the financial crisis, austerity, migration and UKIP, to name a few. Overnight the political future of the UK took an unprecedented and unexpected turn against EU membership. Since then, the UK's government has been charting unknown waters in its negotiations to disentangle the United Kingdom from its membership and obligations to the European Union. In this book, Martin Westlake argues that focus on the short-term, reflex action of the Brexit vote has overshadowed a series of longer-term trends that were inexorably leading, or pushing, the UK away from full membership of the European Union. He shows that the UK was an increasingly semi-detached member, requiring ever more elaborate and ingenious fixes with opt-outs and rebates to keep its involvement in the project. Rather than a sudden, impulsive act of rejection, Brexit should be seen as having taken place over a number of years at various levels: a gradual slipping of the ties that bound the country to the European Union. --
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